Tom_Slick:exvaxman: One of the reasons I bought my house was due to it being built with a fallout shelter. Built in 1958. The house inspector who went through was amazed with the steel beams holding up the concrete that was the base for the garage. I figured that anyone building a house like that, there would be less issues over the years with construction quality.

The tornado room was a deciding factor in my home purchase, sure it has vinyl floors and Formica counters but it is has a tornado room.

/Please tell me you have a Fallout Shelter sign.

I wish I had a house with an awesome shelter, but there's no practical need for one where I live.

Austin:Bunny Deville: tinfoil-hat maggie: Bunny Deville: tinfoil-hat maggie: Bunny Deville: knbber2: Bunny Deville: Anyway, the moral of the story is that North Alabama is generally more prone to EF3 and above tornadoes than anywhere else on the planet, so we take that shiat seriously up here.

Jeez, didn't know that. I've lived in several states that are prone and I've been through a few (luckily missed our house), but other than the Omaha tornado, they were relatively small. You keep your head down and stay safe.

After researching all of those tornadoes, I found out that they like to form on the OTHER side of the mountain from my house. This makes me a happy bunny.

Madison/Harvest/Monrovia, now... those people need to worry.

Well of course Airport RD/Jones Valley as well, but Cullman seems to be the states bad weather magnate./Just saying,//but yea lots seem to track towards Meridianville and North.

I did a couple of density GIS maps of N. AL, Cullman and Madison definitely have the most. It was not a happy finding, let me tell you.

I'll bet, I'm hiding in a Cove myself but ya never know.

No shiat, me too! I'm in Camelot off Bailey Cove.

I'm on the Meridianville/New Market line. The tornado last March missed my house by less than 1000 feet. Three houses down the road and it was total destruction.

I've got a great shot of a funnel cloud from my old apartment next to Grissom, but I've been lucky enough to be far from any real destruction so far.

Yes, seriously. QUIT HITTING THE GODDAMN TORNADO BUTTON. This is getting not only a bit redonkulous but a whole lot of sad and the very sort of thing we don't like to see. :(

Just friggin' stop it with the metaphysical tornado button. :P

(And I know it's already been mentioned, but people laugh when schools and businesses in Dixie Alley and Hoosier Alley have Tornado Days and Early Pretty-Damn-Severe Tornado Watch Dismissals (yeah, pretty much anytime a PDS tornado watch gets issued here there's a general early dismissal plan in a lot of cities here)...well, this is why. :( I'm not sure it would have helped much, but it's the sort of thing that the early dismissals are meant to prevent in theory. And yes, this is actually somewhat of a new thing around here, but especially after some outbreaks in the 90s and the Mega Outbreak in 2011 it's something that is taken fairly seriously.)

And in addition to battery and "Freeplay" crank-dynamo radios...if you have an interest in helping to get better early warning and help with coordinating rescue, I encourage folks to get their ham radio licenses and consider getting training to become a Skywarn storm spotter. (You don't even need Morse anymore to get a ham radio license--it helps in multistate communication, yes, but most of the Skywarn nets and emergency nets tend to be on VHF repeaters--and you can actually get spotter training online if there isn't an NWS spotter course nearby. Also, ham radio tends to work well when the cell towers are out.)

/really hopes for the AR/OK/MO folks that the 11-dimensional kid quits hitting the tornado button//godfarkingdamnit, I thought we were generally past the days when tornadoes racked up huge death counts in the US :(

Linkster:<b><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/7759176/84329551#c84329551" target="_blank">Theory Of Null</a>:</b> <i>Linkster: <b><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/7759176/84328912#c84328912" target="_blank">wxboy</a>:</b> <i>If parents can deal with snow days, they can deal with tornado days. Of course some can't, but that's true everywhere.</i>

So you have about 30 minutes from Tornado watch to tornado warning, if at all. Then maybe a touchdown in that big ass box, if at all. It's not THIS WILL HAPPEN!! They don't know.

when I was Kansas last time. I just sat there and watched the radar, no where to go, no place to hide, today's a good day to die!

And a lot of people don't watch the news during the day. Even if they heard the sirens they might just think it's a regular thunder storm or another test. If anything, they need a more unique way to warn people.</i>

It's gotten better, when I was a kid the twister would have dissipated about the time the sirens go off.

Trust me, Tornado sirens are what they are, no one in that area blows sirens for a pussy ass thunderstorm.

Ha, where I'm from they test them once a month and they blow the siren for any storm with winds exceeding 30 mph.

Yes, seriously. QUIT HITTING THE GODDAMN TORNADO BUTTON. This is getting not only a bit redonkulous but a whole lot of sad and the very sort of thing we don't like to see. :(

Just friggin' stop it with the metaphysical tornado button. :P

(And I know it's already been mentioned, but people laugh when schools and businesses in Dixie Alley and Hoosier Alley have Tornado Days and Early Pretty-Damn-Severe Tornado Watch Dismissals (yeah, pretty much anytime a PDS tornado watch gets issued here there's a general early dismissal plan in a lot of cities here)...well, this is why. :( I'm not sure it would have helped much, but it's the sort of thing that the early dismissals are meant to prevent in theory. And yes, this is actually somewhat of a new thing around here, but especially after some outbreaks in the 90s and the Mega Outbreak in 2011 it's something that is taken fairly seriously.)

And in addition to battery and "Freeplay" crank-dynamo radios...if you have an interest in helping to get better early warning and help with coordinating rescue, I encourage folks to get their ham radio licenses and consider getting training to become a Skywarn storm spotter. (You don't even need Morse anymore to get a ham radio license--it helps in multistate communication, yes, but most of the Skywarn nets and emergency nets tend to be on VHF repeaters--and you can actually get spotter training online if there isn't an NWS spotter course nearby. Also, ham radio tends to work well when the cell towers are out.)

/really hopes for the AR/OK/MO folks that the 11-dimensional kid quits hitting the tornado button//godfarkingdamnit, I thought we were generally past the days when tornadoes racked up huge death counts in the US :(

I was laughing at that so hard last night that I posted it to facebook.

Now it just makes me sad.

Guess our "holy balls" tornado list we were talking about earlier has gained a new entry.

Fark It:Enormous-Schwanstucker: My daughter graduates 4th grade in less than 3 weeks and you better believe my wife and I will be there to celebrate.

Not trying to snark, but seriously? They have ceremonies for each elementary grade level now? Do they have a valedictorian? Who's the speaker? Clifford the Big Red Dog?

It's a fine arts magnet, so they perform a dance or song, then they get awards for stuff like most improved, attendance, best strings player, best dancer. My kid got a bronze medal for reading the 3rd most books out of her class. It's not like a graduation.

Yes, seriously. QUIT HITTING THE GODDAMN TORNADO BUTTON. This is getting not only a bit redonkulous but a whole lot of sad and the very sort of thing we don't like to see. :(

Just friggin' stop it with the metaphysical tornado button. :P

(And I know it's already been mentioned, but people laugh when schools and businesses in Dixie Alley and Hoosier Alley have Tornado Days and Early Pretty-Damn-Severe Tornado Watch Dismissals (yeah, pretty much anytime a PDS tornado watch gets issued here there's a general early dismissal plan in a lot of cities here)...well, this is why. :( I'm not sure it would have helped much, but it's the sort of thing that the early dismissals are meant to prevent in theory. And yes, this is actually somewhat of a new thing around here, but especially after some outbreaks in the 90s and the Mega Outbreak in 2011 it's something that is taken fairly seriously.)

And in addition to battery and "Freeplay" crank-dynamo radios...if you have an interest in helping to get better early warning and help with coordinating rescue, I encourage folks to get their ham radio licenses and consider getting training to become a Skywarn storm spotter. (You don't even need Morse anymore to get a ham radio license--it helps in multistate communication, yes, but most of the Skywarn nets and emergency nets tend to be on VHF repeaters--and you can actually get spotter training online if there isn't an NWS spotter course nearby. Also, ham radio tends to work well when the cell towers are out.)

/really hopes for the AR/OK/MO folks that the 11-dimensional kid quits hitting the tornado button//godfarkingdamnit, I thought we were generally past the days when tornadoes racked up huge death counts in the US :(

Yes, seriously. QUIT HITTING THE GODDAMN TORNADO BUTTON. This is getting not only a bit redonkulous but a whole lot of sad and the very sort of thing we don't like to see. :(

Just friggin' stop it with the metaphysical tornado button. :P

(And I know it's already been mentioned, but people laugh when schools and businesses in Dixie Alley and Hoosier Alley have Tornado Days and Early Pretty-Damn-Severe Tornado Watch Dismissals (yeah, pretty much anytime a PDS tornado watch gets issued here there's a general early dismissal plan in a lot of cities here)...well, this is why. :( I'm not sure it would have helped much, but it's the sort of thing that the early dismissals are meant to prevent in theory. And yes, this is actually somewhat of a new thing around here, but especially after some outbreaks in the 90s and the Mega Outbreak in 2011 it's something that is taken fairly seriously.)

And in addition to battery and "Freeplay" crank-dynamo radios...if you have an interest in helping to get better early warning and help with coordinating rescue, I encourage folks to get their ham radio licenses and consider getting training to become a Skywarn storm spotter. (You don't even need Morse anymore to get a ham radio license--it helps in multistate communication, yes, but most of the Skywarn nets and emergency nets tend to be on VHF repeaters--and you can actually get spotter training online if there isn't an NWS spotter course nearby. Also, ham radio tends to work well when the cell towers are out.)

/really hopes for the AR/OK/MO folks that the 11-dimensional kid quits hitting the tornado button//godfarkingdamnit, I thought we were generally past the days when tornadoes racked up huge death counts in the US :(

Shadow Blasko:Krustofsky: According to AccuWeather, Fort Worth is under a tornado watch but Dallas is not. However, everything to the north, west, and southwest of Dallas (almost to San Antonio) is under a tornado watch.

That cell to the SW of the DFW area is just freaking STATIONARY. It's just been sitting there churning in place for almost an hour I think,.

I'm going to pause the stream of the OK damage... gonna watch a live stream of a weather show out of Birmingham, since they'll probably tell me more about what the upcoming potential for Arkansas is than the local weather folks will on twitter...

Befuddled:Do the K-12 schools in tornado country have shelters for the kids? I would think it would be required but I could see the people there not wanting to pay for it.

An underground shelter for 200 people or more would be incredibly expensive to build. Plus, after 5 years of no serious threats, it would just get filled up with old float chicken wire or tackling dummies or whatever. Not to be hearless, but 99% of schools in the Midwest are never going to have a tornado come within 5 miles of them. You can't engineer away every possible tragedy.